Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Rex
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 9, 2014No. SJC 11480PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpina, J.
A Norfolk County grand jury indicted the defendant, John Rex, on seven counts of possession of child pornography, G. L. c. 272, § 29C, and seven counts of being a habitual offender, G. L. c. 279, § 25. Relying on Commonwealth v. McCarthy, 385 Mass. 160 (1982), the defendant filed a motion to dismiss the indictments, which the Commonwealth opposed. He claimed that the seven photocopies of photographs of naked children (excerpted from a National Geographic magazine, a sociology textbook, and a naturist catalogue) on which the indictments were based did not constitute child pornography within…
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